Cuchumuela

Cuchumuela (also: Kuchu Muela or Gualberto Villarroel ) is a town in the Cochabamba Department in the South American Andes State of Bolivia.

Location in near space

Cuchumuela is the central place of the district ( bolivian: Municipio) Cuchumuela in the province Punata and is at the southeastern edge of the 490 km ² large fertile plateau of the Valle Alto. The village lies at an altitude of 2894 m approximately ten kilometers from the edge of the Cordillera Oriental, which rises east of Cuchumuela to over 3,600 m and 4,100 m north of Punata on.

Geography

Cuchumuela lies in the transitional area between the Bolivian Altiplano in the west and the Bolivian lowlands to the east.

The mean average temperature of the region is almost 18 ° C (see climate chart Cochabamba ) and varies only slightly between 14 ° C in June and July and 20 ° C in November. The annual precipitation is about 450 mm, with a pronounced dry season from May to September, with monthly rainfall less than 10 mm, and a humidity from December to February with an 90-110 mm monthly rainfall.

Traffic network

Cuchumuela is located at a distance of sixty kilometers of road southeast of Cochabamba, the capital of the department of the same name.

From Cochabamba the paved highway Ruta 7 leads to the southeast forty kilometers to San Benito, from where a dirt road six kilometers to the south-east to Punata and again fourteen kilometers further on Villa Rivero and Tacachi after Cuchumuela.

Population

The population of the town has risen in the past two decades to nearly double:

Due to the historically evolved population distribution, the region has a high proportion of Quechua population in the municipality of Cuchumuela 97.7 percent of the population speak the Quechua language.